Google Earth User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience48.0% of reviews
Neutral10.2% of reviews
Negative experience41.8% of reviews

~ Based on 1,287 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Google Earth Safe?

Google Earth appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Google Earth is 80/100.

This assessment is based on 46,856 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4/5.

Safety Analysis

74.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
19.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 46,856 App Store ratings for Google Earth.

Is Google Earth Legit?

Google Earth appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Google Earth is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Too good but bit

How can I just view the moon, do I have to just look at the earth? No, you need to fix this Google, I spent to much times looking at the whole entire things I search up, it got me bored.

Measuring

Anytime I’m measuring on my phone it changes to advanced measurement or finishes the measurement before I’m done. The Add point marker should be moved.

Could be improved

August, 2026 Google Earth team- I installed the most recent update, hoping that some of the problems I was having were fixed. Nope. In addition to the choices of what I want displayed, the darn thing doesn’t have satellite view as the default. Why‽ I hate having to click to switch to satellite *and* custom view every single time I use it. If I wanted a sketch like map I’d use Apple Maps. Google Earth has wandered further away from what makes it useful.

July, 2026 I use this app a lot and love that I can save searches, measurements, etc. I've been using map apps as I read because they make everything more memorable and real. I’ve run into a problem recently that I should have predicted and prevented. I have too many maps. I’ve figured out that I need to include better descriptions of who and what make a particular item important, but I’ve reached the point where files should be merged.

Let’s say I have a map about interesting borders and another about revanchist claims. The two are obviously interconnected, so I want to merge the maps. Sure, I could combine them manually, but it takes a long time to redraw the borders. It looks like I can copy a feature from one file and paste it into another, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Weird, right? Right now, I guess I’ll use a subset of the maps I’ve put a lot of time into and hope I’ll be able to merge the files sooner or later.
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Goog earth

Pretty cool i guess. Whats the purpose though?

WHYYY

WHY. I was looking at Antarctica, hopefully I would see peinquins or seals. NONE. Like why couldn't you go to realy snowy areas?????? IT NOT THAT HARD 3 STAR

Unnecessarily annoying

A few issues that really need to be solved.. Turning on "Map" View instead of "Satellite" will make the app default to map view forever, no matter what you do.

The app also always defaults to "Exploration", and it must be changed every single time.

It actually seems like most things revert to random default settings. For an app as big as this, not saving settings seems absurd.

It is also laggy on a newer phone.
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Shockingly Irresponsible

Nobody asked for deepfake satellite images. Undermining the foundations of reality and turning the product into a social nuisance.

GET RID OF IMAGE GENERATION FEATURE

WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU ALLOW USERS TO USE AI TO ALTER IN APP SATELLITE IMAGERY THIS IS INCREDIBLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND RUINS CREDIBILITY OF SATELLITE IMAGERY IN GENERAL. REMOVE FEATURE NOW. WTF

I don’t know what to put in here so 67

Street view no more?

It’s horrible, no longer have street view that I can find and the images are pixelated

AHHHHHH

Dear, Google

sorry i don't know how to write a dear note in text but here are things i have seen
1: it didn't tell me The Empire State Building was The Empire State Building
2: some locations terrify me
3: idk

what goes in the end of a note again?

Nononono!

My bro just deleted my whole huge 100 word paragraph review. Oh well.

Rendering

The rendering has recently been downgraded. I can no longer see a location that used to offer a downtown view from afar.

I love this

When I’m sad I look at my old house and school and make myself even sadder

Wrong information

Keeps putting wrong person in this app is stupid

It’s good but

Can you make it live video so I can see the world with it moving

Great

Just Layton Utah need updates

Basemap Settings issue

So when I change a setting in the basemap settings when I reopen google earth, it resets or moves the setting that I choose

Needs updated

This app SERIOUSLY needs to be updated otherwise it’s helpful

Always gets blurry on iPad after zooming in/out

Constantly becomes blurry after zooming in and out, constantly have to restart.